Re: mmiotrace fixes in stable kernels

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

(Greg Cc:-ed)

* karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sure this is the only one, but I never checked if anything else
> is needed. Maybe to be sure it would be safe to just add it to 4.5 and
> 4.4, because I am sure it works there without needing anything else
> and most distributions have already packages for 4.4 or newer.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Karol
> 
> 2016-04-23 13:05 GMT+02:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>:
> >
> > * karol herbst <karolherbst@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Ingo,
> >>
> >> thanks for merging my mmiotrace fix :) As it seems it helps quite a
> >> lot and I was wondering if it would be able to merge the fix for older
> >> kernels as well.
> >
> > Sure. Do we only need:
> >
> >   cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
> >
> > ... or are other fixes necessary as well?

Ok.

Greg, mind picking up upstream commit:

   cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")

for -stable v4.3, v4.4 and v4.5? I checked that it cherry-picked fine. (I have not 
performed a functional test on the other hand, maybe Karol wants to do that?)

Thanks,

	Ingo